The Peace & Neutrality Alliance was established to advocate an independent Irish foreign policy, maintain Irish neutrality and promote a transformed United Nations as the organisation through which Ireland should pursue its security concerns.
It is open to all groups and individuals that accept our objectives.
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Since 1996 PANA has campaigned against the integration of Ireland into the US/EU/NATO military structures, and in particular, the use of Shannon Airport by the US military on their way to and from their wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.
In 2009 Ed Horgan, International Secretary of PANA was granted a 10 year visa to visit the USA. In January 2010 it was revoked after Ed had received an invitation to speak at a conference in Duke University, North Carolina on torture and extradition. After intensive lobbying Ed was granted a 3 month visa to attend the conference. This was a victory for the Irish and US peace movements. It was a defeat of those in favour of war and who seek to destroy free speech.
(Powerpoint presentation of Ed's address to the conference).
Part of that campaign is to for the first time actively seek to increase our individual membership. Please download this membership form, print out a few and distribute to your friends. These horrific wars will continue and the use of Shannon Airport in them will continue forever unless there are people willing to join PANA and/or other peace groups in large enough numbers to end them. Its up to you.
New posters available, click on the image above.
* EVENTS
Shannonwatch holds a regular vigil on the 2nd Sunday of every month
from 2-3pm at the Shannon Airport Roundabout.
Contact Tel: +353 878225087
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Conference on
AN INDEPENDENT IRISH FOREIGN POLICY - A FUTURE?
Friday 3rd/Saturday 4th of September 2010
The Teachers Club
36 Parnell Square
Dublin 1
Contact: 087-2611597
* QUIZ
PANA has organised demonstrations at Shannon Airport since 2002. This photograph marks one of the "fly in"
demonstrations by Irish TD's. PANA will offer a free PANA badge to the first 10 correct answers we receive to the
following question.
What are the names of the TDs and the Senator in the photograph?
Answers to be sent to: Shannon FLY-IN quiz, PANA, Dalkey Business Centre, 17 Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin
Ireland
* POLICY DOCUMENTS by PANA National Executive
NO to War NATO and the Lisbon Treaty
(September 2009)
Irish Independence or European Superstate
A European Battle
fought on Irish soil (February 2008)
By Carol Fox, Research Officer of PANA
The EU BATTLE GROUPS: Regiments of the Empire
by Roger Cole (updated May 2006)
The EU Constitution - Policy document by the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (November 2004).
* ARTICLES, DOCUMENTS, LINKS, ...
Patrick Comerford's Hiroshima Day address:
'Get ready for the future: it is murder'
Edward Horgan's PhD thesis (1.54MB download):
The United Nations – Beyond Reform?
The Collective Insecurity of the International System and the Prospects for Sustainable Global Peace and Justice
Shannon Airport, the Afghan War & the Fall of the US Empire
- Roger Cole
Chair, Peace & Neutrality Alliance
U.S. Army at Shannon Airport – Unjustifiable On Any Level
John Lannon, Shannonwatch
Speech given at Public Meeting ‘US Army Out of Shannon; Troops Out of Afghanistan’, Wynn’s Hotel Dublin 27 May 2010. Organised by the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA) and the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM)
The EU in the 21st Century - a Democratic or Imperial Future?
Speech to the Ireland Institute - 22/4/10
- Roger Cole
Chair, Peace & Neutrality Alliance
The NAMA Proclaimation
From eirigi.org - download PDF
Votes in European Parliament
Joe Higgins report on the growing links between NATO and the EU and the acceleration of the militarisation of the EU.
http://www.joehiggins.eu/2010/03/report-from-the-plenary-session-of-the-european-parliament-march-2010/
Irish Foreign Affairs
- Volume 3, Number 1: January 2010 - download PDF
Previous editions:
- Volume 2, Number 3: July-September 2009 - download PDF
- Volume 1, Number 1: April-June 2008 - download PDF
American Iraqi war veteran speaks out
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akm3nYN8aG8
Mapping the troop deployment to Afghanistan
- Hans Lammerant
How to Exit Afghanistan
- by Selig S. Harrison
Dail question - 243,000 troops through Shannon Airport
- Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
Presentation to PANA AGM
by John Lannon, Shannonwatch
The Bush-Obama Wars 2001-2012
and the Fall of the American Empire
- Roger Cole, PANA AGM
Oireactas Question on Irish Troop deployment with NATO ISAF in Afghanistan
- Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
Report by Edward Horgan,
International Secretary, PANA,
to the AGM on 5 October 2009
Video of the address to the Oireachtas Committee on the Lisbon Treaty by
Roger Cole of PANA, Patricia McKenna of the People’s Movement, Tony Coughlan of the National Platform
And Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party
Oireachtas Committee presentation to the Committee on the Lisbon Treaty
Let us support democracy and reject EU superstate
OPINION: A long Irish tradition favouring neutrality and independence should encourage us to vote No in second vote on Lisbon, writes ROGER COLE
The Irish Times, Thursday, August 13, 2009
'We need a total opt-out from 'EU militarisation'
OPINION:The elite's desire for wars has created a strong and growing global peace movement, writes ROGER COLE.
The Irish Times, Friday, April 10, 2009
Lisbon 'alliance' is a step too far
A neutral state cannot legally or politically sign up to the Lisbon Treaty mutual assistance clause because it violates neutrality.
by KAREN DEVINE - The Irish Times Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Protecting neutrality in a militarised EU
A protocol to the Lisbon Treaty giving exemptions for neutral states from the EU's security and defence policy is the only effective way to retain active or military neutrality
by KAREN DEVINE - The Irish Times, Tuesday, November 27, 2008
Tug of war between public and political elites
There is a gap between what the Government thinks neutrality means and what some of the electorate think it means. Part II of this three-part examination of neutrality looks at divergent definitions of the policy, which are not unique to Ireland
by KAREN DEVINE - The Irish Times, Tuesday, November 26, 2008
Neither friend nor foe: the Irish position
Some people voted against the Lisbon Treaty because they said they believed it fatally undermined neutrality. Others because they feared the creation of an alleged EU army into which their children would be conscripted. This is the first of three substantial articles, written by an expert in the field, which seek to explain the origins and evolution of neutrality, why the Irish public and Government appear to differ over Irish neutrality and what impact the Lisbon Treaty could have on Irish neutrality
by KAREN DEVINE - The Irish Times, Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The Lisbon Treaty and its implications for CFSP/ESDP
Briefing Policy carried out
by Gerrard Quille,
Policy Department of the Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union
EU Major new report by Statewatch and the Transnational Institute
NeoConOpticon - The EU Security-Industrial Complex
by Ben Hayes
Irish arguments
against the Treaty of Lisbon
by
Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider
- download PDF
What the Lisbon Treaty will or will not do to Irish neutrality
Donegal Democrat, 17 September 2009
Edward Longwill
DIE LINKE Demands by the Left concerning Lisbon-Judgement
Working Group on Europe of the Working Party on International Affairs
Chair: Dieter Dehm
11 August 2009
- download Word doc
TSN/MRBI Poll on Lisbon 2008
- download PDF
Shannon and Militarism
Morning Star,
September 9th 2009
by Jeremy Corbyn MP
Neutrality - Irish Experience - European Experience
Papers presented at a conference
organised by
Irish School of Ecumenics
Dublin Monthly Meeting
[Quakers] Peace Committee
8-9 May 2009
edited by Iain Atack and Seán McCrum
A great music video on the Lisbon Treaty - "Scared of Lisbon"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_Pv7McXVg
(German with English subtitles)
The EU Institute for Security Studies is an integral part of the structures established to develop a Common Foreign Security and Defence Policy for the European Union. PANA stands for a Partnership Europe. A Partnership of Independent Democratic States without a military dimension. The EU ISS stands for the exact opposite and has a great deal more money than we have. We need to build a Democratic Alliance not just in Ireland but throughout the EU. To do so we need to gain some knowledge of what the ISS is thinking.
An insight into their thinking can be gained by going on to the following link:
www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/What_ambitions_for_European_defence_in_2020.pdf
Verdict of the German Constitutional Court concerning the Lisbon Treaty: Court strenghtens Parliamentery Prerogative
But the Lisbon Treaty was made compliant with the constitution ? now the
Irish referendum is decisive
by Tobias Pflüger
German judgement is a call to action against the EU's democratic deficit
JENS-PETER BONDE
(EUObserver/Comment)
24 July 2009
Galway No 2 Lisbon Treaty Campaign
Leaflet for the Galway Campaign
Germany's Lisbon Treaty Ruling
Brussels Put Firmly in the Back Seat
Last week's ruling by the German Constitutional Court, coupled with demands by one conservative party for changes to the constitution, may not only jeopardize Berlin's schedule for the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. The Karlsruhe ruling also threatens future steps toward European integration.
Read more ...
By SPIEGEL Staff
The quest for European foreign policy consistency
and the Treaty of Lisbon
Gaspers-on-Lisbon-Treaty (pdf)
Jan Gaspers
University of Cambridge
How to end the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Iranian born British scholar reminds us about the contemporary history of these countries and about the West's involvement back in time - which is vitally important for understanding today's situation. And he ends the analysis with a series of constructive proposals as to what can be done, rather much in contrast to what President Obama seems to try to do.
One of the most pedagogical analyses of these extremely complex issues.
A must read if you want the larger picture.
http://www.transnational.org/Resources_Treasures/2009/Jahanpour_AfPak.html
TFF Associate, Farhang Jahanpour, Oxford,
June 3, 2009
Pashtunistan - a new member of the United Nations?
TFF Associate's thought-provoking out-of-the-box scenario
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/home/opinion/10743-a-new-member-of-the-united-nations.html
Hazel Henderson, June 3, 2009
Engage more, do war less in Afghanistan
The Americans and NATO can talk all they want about engagement but this is shooting themselves in the foot. They have to back up their willingness to talk by some credible military steps to lower the intensity of combat, and a diversion of troops into peacekeeping and rebuilding the schools, hospitals and villages they have helped or provoked to decimate.
http://www.transnational.org/Columns_Power/2009/11.EngageMoreLessWar.html
Jonathan Power, March 18, 2009
Capodistrias-Spinelli-Europe
http://ec-network.eu/cse/spip.php?rubrique5
http://www.enouranois.gr/video/kapo.wmv
Shannonwatch.org:
Shannon Peace Forum Presentation (pdf)
You can watch Seamas Rattigan's (representing PANA) excellent speech at the No To NATO conference in Strasbourg here:
http://vimeo.com/4226948
No Means No
This leaflet was distributed at the Labour Party Conference 09
Shannon Peace Conference
(March 2009)
EU NATO ESDP
Check out two reports agreed by the EU Parliament on accelerating the
process of the militarisation of the European Union and making the links
between the EU and NATO even stronger.
(March 2009)
RTE Falling at The Feet of Power
RTÉ’s Coverage of the Lisbon Treaty Campaign
(February 2009)
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